Overview

Thursday 26 February, 6-9pm

£8/6 (conc.)

Booking essential

Taking inspiration from the paintings of Katy Moran, in this workshop with poet and musician Simon Pomery, you will be invited to read poetry influenced by surrealism, and apply leaps of thought, image and idea to new poems of your own. We will look back to An Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry(1942) and across to recent internet poetry from 3:AM magazine.

This workshop is hosted in partnership with the drawing shed.

BIO

Simon Pomery is a poet and musician based in London. His poems have been published in places including the Times Literary Supplement, The White Review, Edinburgh Review, P.N. Review, and Poetry London. The Stream (tall-lighthouse, 2010) was published to acclaim by the TLS and the late Seamus Heaney, who wrote “This augurs well for the Pomery life and literature”. Simon was the 2013 Poet-in-Residence at MultiMadeira Festival. His ‘Blood Music E.P.’ was released in June 2013 on Diagonal Records, on transparent red vinyl in gold screen-printed PVC sleeve.

the drawing shed is a contemporary arts project led by visual artists Sally Labern and Bobby Lloyd. Based on two housing estates in London E17 since 2009, its mobile studios - the drawing shed, ClayOven and PrintBike - alongside their project space LockUpNumber11, form central platforms for their work across London and further a-field. the drawing shed is supported by a diverse range of local, regional and national partners with regular funding from Arts Council England and Waltham Forest Council.